| Biography |
| 1965 |
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Born in Bristol, England. |
| 1986–89 |
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BA in Fine Art at Goldsmiths College, London, England. |
| 1988 |
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Curates the widely acclaimed Freeze exhibition while still a student at Goldsmiths College, London, England. |
| 1991 |
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Produces the work, ‘The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living’, which features in the ground breaking show at the Saatchi Gallery in 1992. |
| 1994 |
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Curates the group show, ’Some Went Mad, Some Ran Away’, Serpentine Gallery, London, England. |
| 1995 |
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Wins the Turner Prize for exhibitions at the ICA, Saatchi Gallery and the Serpentine Gallery, Prix Eliette von Karajan, Max Gandolph-Bibliothek, Salzburg.
Birth of his first son, Connor. |
| 1998 |
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Opens his own restaurant ‘Pharmacy’ in Notting Hill, London, England.
Publishes his autobiography ‘I want to spend the Rest of My Life Everywhere, with Everyone, One to One, Always, Forever, Now.’ |
| 2000 |
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Birth of his second son, Cassius. |
| 2006 |
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Continues to work in London and at his home in Devon, England. |
Selected solo exhibitions
| 1991 |
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'In & Out of Love', Woodstock Street, London, England.
'Internal Affairs', ICA, London, England. |
| 1992 |
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‘Pharmacy’, Cohen Gallery, New York, USA. |
| 1993 |
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'Visual Candy', Regen Projects, Los Angeles, USA.
Jablonka Galerie, Cologne, Germany. |
| 1994 |
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‘Damien Hirst (Currents 23)’, Milwaukee Art Museum, USA.
‘Making Beautiful Drawings’, Bruno Brunnet Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany.
'A Bad Environment for White Monochrome Paintings', Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, USA.
‘Pharmacy’, Dallas Museum, Dallas, USA. |
| 1995 |
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Gagosian Gallery, New York, USA.
‘Still', White Cube, London, England. |
| 1996 |
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'No Sense of Absolute Corruption', Gagosian Gallery, New York, USA. |
| 1997 |
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‘The Beautiful Afterlife', Bruno Bischofberger, Zurich, Switzerland.
‘Solo Exhibition’, Astrup Fearnley Museum, Oslo, Norway. |
| 1998 |
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Southampton City Art Gallery, Southampton, England. |
| 2000 |
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'Theories, Models, Methods, Approaches, Assumptions, Results and Findings', Gagosian Gallery, New York, USA.
Sadler's Wells, London, England. |
| 2003 |
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La Caja Negra, Madrid, Spain.
‘Romance in the Age of Uncertainty’, White Cube, London, England. |
| 2004 |
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‘Survey of Key Works from 1989-2004’, Museo Nazionale Archaeologico, Naples, Italy. |
| 2005 |
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Astrup Fearnley Museet fur Moderne Kunst, Oslo.
‘The Elusive Truth!’, Gagosian Gallery, New York, USA.
'Works on Paper’, Robert Sandelson, London, England. |
| 2006 |
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‘The Death of God’, Galeria Hilario Galguera, Mexico City, Mexico.
‘A Thousand Years & Triptychs’, Gagosian Gallery, London, England.
‘Spots, Butterflies and Cabinets’, Robert Sandelson, London, England. |
Selected group exhibtitions
| 1988 |
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‘Freeze’, Surrey Docks, London, England. |
| 1989 |
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'New Contemporaries’, ICA, London, England. |
| 1990 |
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‘Modern Medicine’, Building One, London, England. |
| 1991 |
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‘Broken English’, Serpentine Gallery, London, England. |
| 1992 |
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'Young British Artists', Saatchi Collection, London, England.
Biennial, Istanbul, Turkey.
‘Strange Developments’, Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London, England.
Turner Prize Exhibition (nominated), Tate Gallery, London, England. |
| 1993 |
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Aperto: Venice Biennial, Aperto Section, Venice, Italy.
‘Here and Now: Twenty Three Years of the Serpentine Gallery’, Serpentine Gallery, London, England. |
| 1994 |
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'Some Went Mad, Some Ran Away', Serpentine Gallery, London, England. |
| 1995 |
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Turner Prize Exhibition (winner), Tate Gallery, London, England. |
| 1996 |
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‘Twentieth Century British Sculpture’, Jeu de Paume, Paris, France.
‘Life/Live’, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France.
‘Spellbound’, Hayward Gallery, London, England. |
| 1997 |
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'Sensation', Royal Academy of Arts, London, England; Brooklyn Museum, New York, USA; Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany. |
| 1998 |
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‘Damien Hirst, Jeff Koons, Charles Ray’, 11 Duke Street, London, England.
‘Modern British Art’, Tate Gallery, Liverpool, England.
‘A Portrait of Our Times: An Introduction to the Logan Collection’, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA. |
| 1999 |
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‘Examining Pictures’, Whitechapel Gallery, London, England. |
| 2000 |
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‘Ant Noises’, Saatchi Gallery, London, England. |
| 2001 |
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‘Century City’, Tate Modern, London, England. |
| 2002 |
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'Blast to Freeze - Britische Kunst im 20. Jahrhundert’, Kunstmuseum, Wolfsburg, Germany. |
| 2003 |
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‘Supernova: Art from the 1990s’, Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA.
‘The Rotunda: Emin, Hirst, Lucas, Mueck, Ofili, Saville, Quinn’, Saatchi Gallery, London, England. |
| 2004 |
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‘What's Modern?’, Gagosian Gallery, New York, USA.
‘In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida: Angus Fairhurst, Damien Hirst, Sarah Lucas’, Tate Britain, London, England. |
| 2005 |
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‘Summer Exhibition’, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
‘Extreme Abstraction’, Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, USA. |
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